A Guide to SQL Server 2000 Transactional and Snapshot Replication
This chapter focuses on installing replication on your SQL Server.Most users will only install replication on their SQL Server and then enable Subscribers.We’ll look at these two options and then look at how to set up your SQL Server to use a remote Distributor. After looking at these options, we’ll look at Replication Monitor, which is the central point for replication administration. In the process we’ll cover some of the more advanced options and settings. Following that, for those of you who are wizard adverse, we will look at the replication stored procedures that you can use to carry out the same things.

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A Guide to SQL Server 2000 Transactional and Snapshot Replication

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